Ceremony & Celebration: Introduction to the Holidays

When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, develop into a day of judgement? How does Yom Kippur unite the priest’s atonement with the prophet’s repentance? What makes Kohelet, learn on Sukkot, essentially the most joyful ebook within the Bible? Why is the remembrance of the Pesah story so central to Jewish morality? And which does Shavuot actually have fun the legislation or the land?

Bringing collectively Rabbi Sacks’s acclaimed introductions to the Koren Sacks Mahzorim, Ceremony & Celebration reveals the gorgeous interaction of biblical legal guidelines, rabbinic edicts, liturgical themes, communal rituals and profound non secular that means of every of the 5 central Jewish holidays.